Bad News For Alternative Web Browsers

Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, in its various versions, still retains somewhere in the neighborhood of 80% market share. The 20% of users who have made the switch to "alternative browsers" have some issues to be concerned with though (not that IE users don't have issues to be concerned with). It is being reported that the Firefox and Opera web browsers have a handful of security holes which make them vulnerable to a variety of attacks. For more details about the flaws and how to protect your web browser from being exploited, read Bad hair day for alternative browser users from The Register.